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Posts tagged ‘omnivore’

Porcupine is having a picnic! As
more animals arrive, each of them eats something
different. But then Tiger shows up. Uh-oh! Offers further information about
herbivores, carnivores, and omnivores

Whose Food is
This?: a look at what animals eat–leaves, bugs, and nuts by Nancy Kelly Allen

What’s for
dinner? : quirky, squirmy poems from the animal world by Katherine B. Hauth

What in
nature could be more poetic than the hunt for food and the struggle for
survival? In twenty-nine poems readers will squirm at the realities of how the
animal world catches food, eats it, and becomes dinner in turn.

I Won’t Eat That by Christopher
Silas Neal

Cat is very hungry. But cat food is dry
and dull and not at all yummy. So what in the world should Cat eat instead?
Turtle eats worms, but worms are too wiggly. Fox eats rabbits, but rabbits are
too bouncy. What everyone else loves to eat is thoroughly unappetizing to Cat.
Until, by chance, the thing Cat really wants to eat appears right in front of
him. What could it be?

Morris Mole
by Dan Yaccarino

Food is
running short so Morris’s big brothers dig down deeper, but Morris tries
digging up instead and discovers a beautiful new place, filled with delicious
treats and new friends.

If an
Armadillo Went to a Restaurant by Ellen Fischer

Illustrations
and easy-to-read text explore what various animals, from an armadillo in an
underground restaurant to a wallaby in a sandwich shop, might choose to eat.

Eats by Marthe Jocelyn

With a fresh
cast of animal characters — and what they eat — the creative team of Marthe
Jocelyn and Tom Slaughter has produced another work in their award-winning
series for very young book and art lovers.

Worms for Lunch?
By Leonid Gore

Easy-to-read text and die-cut illustrations allow various creatures to reveal what they like to eat.